PUBLICATIONS
AND
REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, Washington,
June 7, 1960
D.C.
N. Chomsky, On generative grammar (invited)
Congres International "Tubes Hyperfrequences," Munich,
June 7-11, 1960
Germany
A. Bers, Space-charge theory of gap interaction with application to multicavity
klystrons
ONR Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization,
Illinois, Monticello, Illinois
June 8-9, 1960
M. Blum,
J.
Allerton House, University of
The construction of infallible nets with unreliable neurons (invited)
D. Cowan, Many-valued logics and homeostatic mechanisms (invited)
W. S.
McCulloch, What puzzles me most?
(invited)
L. A. M. Verbeek, Analysis and synthesis of error-minimizing neuronal nets
liable to deaths and fits (invited)
American Electroencephalographic Society Meeting,
June 8-11, 1960
J. S. Barlow, F. R. Ervin, G. A.
EEG in Korsakov's psychosis
Talland,
West Harwich, Massachusetts
and M.
Fifty-ninth Meeting, Acoustical Society of America,
Rhode Island
June 9-11, 1960
Victor, An analysis of the
Brown University, Providence,
L. W. Dean III, Scattering of sound by sound
Symposium on Abnormal Nervous Function, Boston, Massachusetts
June 12-14, 1960
M. A. B. Brazier,
(invited)
Oscillatory phenomena in the normal and abnormal brain
Summer Program, "Computers, Science,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 13-24, 1960
and Engineering," University of Michigan,
B. G. Farley, Five lectures in the section on Programming Concepts, Automata,
and Adaptive Systems (invited)
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
McGill University,
American Physical Society June Meeting,
June 15-17, 1960
G. Bekefi,
Montreal, Canada
Microwave measurements of a plasma temperature
S. J. Buchsbaum, L. Mower, and S. C. Brown, Interaction of a bounded microwave
field with a cold plasma in a magnetic field
S.
Gruber,
J.
L.
D. J.
Receiving-antenna influence on cyclotron radiation measurements
Hirshfield, Line profiles of cyclotron radiation
Rose,
Energy balance in a thermonuclear reactor
D. R. Whitehouse and G. Bekefi, Diffusion and heat conduction of a weakly ionized
plasma
Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics, University of California,
Berkeley, California
June 20-July 29, 1960
M. Eden, A two-dimensional growth process
Barth Foundation Symposium on Biosimulation, Locarno, Switzerland
June 29-July 5, 1960
W. S. McCulloch, Logisticon: A proper probabilistic multiple truth valued logic
for theory of parallel computer composed of threshold devices (invited)
Scuola di perfezionamento in fisica teorica e nucleare,
Italy
July 8, 1960
W. S.
sezione di cibernetica,
Naples,
McCulloch, Logisticon (invited)
Mathematics Institute Colloquium on Information and Speech, Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz, Germany
July 11, 1960
W. S. McCulloch, Logisticon: A proper probabilistic multiple truth valued logic
for theory of parallel computer composed of threshold devices (invited)
Seminar of Professor F.
Copenhagen, Denmark
July 13, 1960
Buchthal's Group,
Institute of Neurology,
University of
W. S. McCulloch, A proper logic for neurology (invited)
International Conference on Medical Electronics,
July 21-27, 1960
W. H. Levison and H. Sherman,
indicator dilution techniques
London
The measurement
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of mitral regurgitation by
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Fifth International Congress of the International Union of Crystallography,
England
Aug. 17-22, 1960
Cambridge,
A. L. Loeb, A modular algebra for the description and classification of crystal
structures
International Conference on Poetics, Warsaw, Poland
Aug. 18-28, 1960
R. H. Abernathy, Mathematical linguistics and poetics
Teaching Institute of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics, Seattle, Washington
Aug. 21-25, 1960
G. L. Gerstein and W. A. Rosenblith, The processing of neuroelectric data; average
responses and firing patterns of single neurons (invited)
1960 Western Electronic Show and Convention, San Francisco, California
Aug. 23-26, 1960
E. J.
Baghdady, A linear-cancellation technique for suppressing impulse noise
International Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science,
Aug. 23-Sept. 2, 1960
N. Chomsky,
Stanford, California
Explanatory models in linguistics (invited)
Summer Institute in Biophysical Science,
Aug. 28-Sept. 9, 1960
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
G. L. Gerstein, The electrical activity of single units in the auditory cortex (invited)
W. T. Peake, Auditory nerve responses: An input to the central nervous system
(invited)
W. A. Rosenblith, Quantitative assessment of the electrical activity of the nervous
system (invited)
Fourth London Symposium on Information Theory,
Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 1960
London
M. Eden and M. Halle, A characterization of cursive writing
B. G. Farley and W. A. Clark, Jr.,
Activity in networks of neuron-like elements
T. Kailath, Optimum receivers for randomly varying channels
J. A. Swets and D. M. Green, Sequential observations by human observers of
signals in noise
J.
M. Wozencraft and M. Horstein, Coding for two-way channels
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
International Conference on Nuclear Structure, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 1960
H. H. Stroke and R. J. Blin-Stoyle, Configuration mixing and the effects of
distributed nuclear magnetization on hyperfine structure in odd A nuclei
Sixth International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 1960
J. F. Cochran and Pieternella Cochran, The specific heat of super conductors near
the critical temperature
Seminar, Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy
Aug. 30, 1960
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., A mathematical model for neuroelectric responses (invited)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
(Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room,
26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
G. Ascarelli and S. C. Brown,
germanium (Phys. Rev.)
Recombination of electrons and donors in n-type
S. J. Buchsbaum, L. Mower, and S. C. Brown, Interaction between cold plasmas and
guided electromagnetic waves (Phys. Fluids)
W. A. Clark, M. H. Goldstein, Jr., R. M. Brown, D. F. O'Brien, and H. E. Zieman,
The average response computer, a digital device for computing averages and amplitude and time histograms of electrophysiological resopnses (Trans. IRE, PGME)
G. L. Gerstein and N. Y-S. Kiang, An approach to the quantitative analysis of electrophysiological data from single neurons (Biophys. J.)
M. Harwit, Measurement of thermal fluctuations in radiation (Phys. Rev.)
N. Y-S. Kiang and T. T. Sandel, "Off"-responses from the auditory cortex of unanesthetized cats (Arch. Ital. Biol. (Pisa))
H. R. Maturana, J. Y. Lettvin, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts, Anatomy and physiology of vision in the frog (Rana pipiens) (J. Gen. Physiol. Supplement)
T. T. Sandel and N. Y-S. Kiang, "Off"-responses from the auditory cortex of anesthetized cats: Effects of stimulus parameters (Arch. Ital. Biol. (Pisa))
J. A. Swets, Detection theory and psychophysics:
a review (Psychometrika)
V. H. Yngve, A model and an hypothesis for language structure (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc.)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
E.
R. Pike and J.
Ladell, The Lorentz factor in powder diffraction (Acta Cryst.)
TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED
(These and previously published technical reports, if available,
may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research
Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
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M. V. Cerrillo, On the Mode of Convergence and Its Correction by Methods of
Linear Summability
361
R. J.
363
M. W. P.
364
M. Harwit, Measurement of Fluctuations in Radiation from a Source in Thermal
Equilibrium (also Technical Report 364, Naval Supersonic Laboratory)
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W. B. Nottingham,
McLaughlin, FM Weaker-Signal Suppression with Narrow-Band Limiters
Strandberg, Unidirectional Paramagnetic Amplifier Design
The Thermionic Energy Converter
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
E.
J. Baghdady, Signal-cancellation techniques for capturing the weaker of two cochannel
FM signals (Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Academic Press, New York, 1960)
J.
S. Barlow, A small electronic averager and variance computer for evoked potentials
of the brain (Medical Electronics, Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., London, 1960)
J.
F. Campbell, Jr., The voltage-current characteristics of a surface-dominated junction (Report on Twentieth Annual Conference on Physical Electronics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., March 24-26, 1960)
C.
F. Ehret and J. S. Barlow, Toward a realistic modelof abiological period-measuring
mechanism (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology XXV)
B.
G. Farley and W. A. Clark, Jr., Activity in networks of neuron-like elements (Proc.
Conference on Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics, May 24, 1960, Trans. IRE,
PGANE)
W. B. Nottingham, A simplified method for the computation of the electrical properties
of a close-spaced thermionic converter (Report on Twentieth Annual Conference on
Physical Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.,
March 24-26, 1960)
W. A. Rosenblith, The electric activity of the nervous system (Quality and Quantity,
edited by Daniel Lerner, Glencoe Free Press)
T.
T. Sandel, Quantitative methods in the analysis of neuroelectric activity (Medical
Electronics, Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., London, 1960)
V. H. Yngve,
The depth hypothesis (Proc. Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vol. XII)
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